Empty <strong> tag gets converted to *****

[ghost]

An empty <strong> tag gets converted as ****. I think the tag should be ignored.

[leeoniya]

the goal of reMarked is to reproduce the html given to it rather than what the user sees on the screen. if there is an empty <strong> tag in the html, it will also be there in the markdown.

you should probably pre-process the html to remove empty tags from it. while it may be a useful option to add, i'd like to encourage people not to create a sea of useless empty tags and expect other libraries to ignore them. garbage in, garbage out.

[leeoniya]

i'll think about it...

[leeoniya]

i've decided not to do this.

after starting working on this, the required changes will add a significant amount of code since the render functions are fairly node-specific (not really inherited) and each will need the same logic added to determine whether to wrap empty nodes with tags (where needed) and also with markdown-specific characters. not worth it.

i'll commit the partial work-in-progress to another branch, so feel free to add the remaining code in your own version, but i won't be doing more work on this.

[leeoniya]

see https://github.com/leeoniya/reMarked.js/commit/b84b3f2a00597ecd1d919bacf93e6c9e21dfd2b3